Vintage Halloween Postcards With Love Theme

So many of the traditions of Halloween are connected to love.

Take for example the thing with apples.

We play the game, apple bobbing, where we place apples in a basin with water, and then the players try to catch the apples with their teeth. (In different parts of Great Britain it is called apple bobbing, apple ducking, apple dooking or duck-apple, but it’s all the same game.) The use of hands or arms is not allowed.

Now, what does love has to do with that, you might wonder?

A lot! When you slice the apple in half, the seeds form a pentagram-like figure, and the manifestation of such a shape is (or was) the sign that the apple can be used to predict marriages.

Unmarried young people should at Halloween play the game, and the first to catch an apple with her/his teeth would be the first to be married! And there is even more to it.
Everybody who catches an apple can bring it home, place it under the pillow, and then the person you are going to marry will appear in your dream.

You can play the same game just hanging the apples on a string.

Another tradition at Halloween, that has to do with love and marriage, is peeling an apple and the using the shape of the peel to show the initial of the person you are going to marry. You just have to peel the apple so that the peel is long, and then throw it over your left shoulder.
Now you take a look at the peel, and I am sure you will be able to recognize the initial of your loved one 🙂

A maybe more well-known Halloween tradition is when you look in the mirror at Halloween night at the light from a Jack o’lantern, you should see the image of the man you are going to marry.

Here comes some Halloween poems to go with the cards:

“The witching hours for loveOn Halloween watch for the charmIt comes like the fluttering doveAnd is meant for good, not harm.”